Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid, effervescent, rapidly dissolving dosage form for oral administration, of (a) cetirizine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, (b) an effervescent base comprising (i) at least one of (1) an organic edible acid and (2) a salt thereof, (ii) at least one of an alkali metal and an alkaline earth metal carbonate and bicarbonate, and (c) optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary ingredient.

Abstract: The invention relates to an effervescent, rapidly disintegrating oral dosage form of (a) an alkali-sensitive active ingredient, (b) an effervescent base comprising at least one of (i) at least one alkaline earth metal carbonate, (ii) an organic edible acid, and (iii) an alkali metal salt of citric acid, and optionally (c) a pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary ingredient, and to a process for preparing the dosage form.

Abstract: The application relates to a chuck (10) with a coupling and a housing (34) for clamping cap-screws and/or studs having a screw spindle (11), a drive spindle (12) fixed axially in relation to the screw spindle (11) with at least one spring-loaded and axially movable coupling (18) which can be drivably secured to the screw spindle (11) by a counter-component (59) and a spring-loaded, axially movable adjusting sleeve (22) which can render the coupling inoperative. The coupling (18) has at least one projection or recess (6) which can be functionally engaged with a mating recess or projection on the counter-component (59).

Abstract: The invention relates to 1,2,5-trisubstituted 1,2-dihydroindazol-3-ones of formula (I) wherein X is —SO2—, —SO—, —(CH2)p—, —(CH2)p—O—, —(CH2)p—(C═O)—, —(CH2)p—(C═O)—NH—, —(CH2)p—CHOH—, —CHOH—(CH2)p—, —(CH2)p—CH═CH—, —CH═CH—(CH2)p—, Y is —(C═O)—, —(C═O)—NH—, —(C═O)—NH—(CH2)p—, —C═O)—(CH2)p—, —(CH2)p—, —(CH2)p—O—, —(CH2)p—(C═O)—, —(CH2)p—(C═O)—NH—, —(CH2)p—(C═O)—NH—(CH2)p—, —(CH2)p—CHOH—, —CHOH—(CH2)p—, —(CH2)p—CH═CH—, —CH═CH—(CH2)p—, Z is —O—, —O—(CH2)p—, —NH—, —NH—(

Abstract: The invention relates to 1,5- and 3-O-substituted 1H-indazoles of formula (I) ##STR1##

Abstract: An aqueous solution of from about 1 mg/ml to about 5 mg/ml mitoxantrone.HCl, from about 0.01% wt. to about 0.15% wt. based on the solution of sodium edetate, sodium chloride, sodium acetate, and acetic acid, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for exact pile formation in printing press deliveries, which comprises printing, or printing and coating sheets in a printing press, transporting the printed or printed and coated sheets to a sheet delivery pile, releasing the sheets above the delivery pile, compacting the delivery pile by applying mechanical or pneumatic pressure thereonto, and removing the thus compacted delivery pile, and to apparatus for carrying out the foregoing method.

Abstract: A monitor cover having a frame securable against the front shape of a monitor, and a covering on the frame and attached from the frame, the covering being movable toward and away from the front of a monitor, the covering being optionally formed from a plurality of covering elements vertically disposed respectively above and under one another and separated from each other whereby each element is movable toward and away from the front of a monitor independently of each other for partially or entirely covering the front of the monitor.

Abstract: A comminuting apparatus has a housing and a crushing area. The housing includes left and right bearing plates, left and right reinforcing, bearing and holdback plates, each with clearing and crushing prongs. The crushing unit includes left and right crushing shafts which are rotationally supported by the housing are interconnected to rotate in opposite directions, synchronously. Each crushing shaft includes a number of radially-extending tool carriers having tool heads which carry clearing devices and front and rear wear inserts, in seats within the tool heads. The crushing unit can be configured to provide clearing spacing between adjacent clearing devices of adjacent tool carriers, or to provide an overlap thereof. The clearing and crushing prongs are arranged between each of the tool carriers. An intermediate crushing area is formed between the left and right crushing shafts.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved apparatus for making flexible hoses comprising a means for storing and unwinding reinforcing threads needed for hose building, said means comprising a set of joinable drum storing platforms as a thread applying means capable of simultaneously applying reinforcing threads in the order of magnitude of a thousand to the flexible hose to be manufactured; at least one driving mechanism being capable of positively gripping any part of the hose and being capable of advancing or advancing and rotating the hose; optional input means for supplying heat, e.g.

Abstract: A golf ball being adapted to be capable of being stroked in the direction in which the center of gravity of the ball is made to coincide with the center thereof. Marks are placed on the ball to identify hit points and lead points, the hit points being those at which a first diameter line passing through the center of gravity of the ball intersects the surface of the ball and the lead points being those at which a second diameter line perpendicular to the first diameter line intersects the surface of the ball. Alternatively, marks capable of identifying the direction of the diameter line joining the hit points are set on the lead points.

Abstract: Running sole structuring for a ski, especially for a cross-country ski.The object of the invention is to provide a new profiling which combines optimum gliding and climbing characteristics. Therefore, it is the object of the invention, to provide a suitable shaping of the profiling which fully considers the special requirements under different snow conditions as well as the special loadings of the ski during the push-off and gliding phases, as well as the process of sticking and gliding friction and the transitional phases associated therewith directly.This object is solved according to the invention by the provision of exclusively straight, vertical and parallel arranged profile edges with respect to the direction of the run which are also two-dimensional in the plane of contact with the snow and are statistically arranged and, wherein the adjacent pairs of climbing edge rows lying behind each other lie on a gliding arc. It is preferred when the mean edge length (b.sub.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for the preliminary determination of the efficiency of the trays of distillation and/or absorption columns in order to establish the actual tray number of the columns, as well as for those columns the tray number of which was determined thereby. Each column section of different geometry or load is loaded with a set of trays (12) with air water system consisting at least of two trays having identical geometry (13,13a) and one air distributor (14). On the basis of the recognition that each set of trays (12) may be regarded as a cascade consisting of mixers which include series-connected mixers formed from the trays (13,13a), the liquid content of which is mixed by ascending vapor, or gas, in this case by air.

Abstract: A plug-in type contact arrangement for high power electrical apparatus such as switch gear, wherein a fixed contact member carries a plurality of contact fingers having roller contacts mounted at one end thereof for reliably contacting a movable contact member when such movable contact member is forced into a contacting relationship with the fixed contact member and entering the cage-like receptacle formed by the circularly arranged contact fingers, and wherein the contact fingers are crimped at a predetermined point forming a first longitudinal portion and a second longitudinal portion arranged in different axial planes and connected by the crimping region, thereby transforming the contact pressure formed between the movable contact member and the roller contacts into a torsional load exerted on the contact fingers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of .alpha.- and .gamma.-interferon by isolating the buffy coat fraction of blood, removing the erythrocytes, suspending the leukocytes in a suitable nutrient medium and treating with an .alpha.-interferon inducer and with a .gamma.-interferon inducer, which comprises producing .alpha.-interferon and .gamma.-interferon one after the other in the same leukocyte culture by pre-treating the suspension obtained after the separation of the leukocyte/buffy coat/fraction of blood, removal of the erythrocytes and suspending the leukocytes in a suitable nutrient medium with - or .beta.-interferon, contacting with an .alpha.-interferon inducer, separating the liquid containing the .alpha.-interferon from the cells, if desired recovering the -interferon, washing and suspending the cells in a suitable nutrient medium, treating with a mitogenic agent, separating the liquid comprising .alpha.-interferon from the cells and if desired recovering .alpha.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for the heating of pasty materials with surface and infusion type heating, wherein the two heating systems are combined in such a manner that first the pasty material is preheated by surface heating, then it is heated to the required final temperature by infusion heating due to the arrangement that the two heating systems are placed above each other. Also the preheated material is admitted into the infusion space lying below with a vertical velocity component and where it is elutriated in a field of gravity and drop formation takes place simultaneously with the preheating.

Abstract: A process for dyeing keratinaceous substances such as hair, wool, skin etc., which comprises contacting the same with a composition containing an aromatic azide or azidoindole component having the formula ##STR1## wherein X is hydroxyl, alkoxyl, NR'R", in which R' and R" are independently of each other hydrogen, alkyl or hydroxyalkyl, and if R' is H or alkyl, then R" can be further carbamylalkyl, mesylaminoalkyl, acylaminoalkyl, sulfoalkyl, piperidinoalkyl or morpholinoalkyl, R' and R" can also form with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached a piperidine or morpholine ring, R is hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, halogen, nitro, cyano or alkoxyl, W, Y and Z are independently of each other H or R', wherein all of the aforementioned alkyl moieties can have between 1 and 8 carbon atoms, and then exposing the contacted keratinaceous material to a suitable light source for sufficient time to develop the color.

Abstract: A weld inspection process and an associated system for the determination and assessment of weld seams by first producing a flawless weld seam on a test specimen, making a point by point inspection of the test specimen using a pair of alternately pulsed X-ray or gamma ray sources, while generating signals which may be simultaneously displayed and stored, to form a permanent record of the test specimen weld seam, on a target plate. A point by point comparison of is made of a new, similar weld and the recorded image is instantaneously compared with the previously recorded, stored image of the flawless test weld. In the event of identical images, that point of the weld is deemed flawless, while a lack of identity indicates a flaw, in which event, the defective position is marked for subsequent repair, removal or total rejection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high pressure sodium vapor lamp having improved color reproduction index, which has a discharge vessel (1) placed in an outer envelope (10) and at least a pair of electrodes (4,5) and a filling comprising of at least one additive material and a fill gas, as well as a pair of current conductors (6,7) for supplying current for the electrodes (4,5). The essence of the invention resides in that especially in the case of high pressure sodium vapor lamps of low output for the increasing of the color reproduction index filaments (2,3) are arranged at the ends and outside of the discharge vessel (1) and which during the entire operation of the discharge vessel (1) are connected in series therewith.